Presenter: David Rendall

Do you want more happiness, fulfillment, and energy? Do you want to dramatically improve your productivity and increase employee performance?

Our parents, teachers, and managers have told us that, if we want to succeed, we should find and fix our weaknesses. However, this is the wrong approach because each weakness is also a strength. We can create outrageous personal and professional success by amplifying flaws, instead of denying them.

Presenter: Danielle Haindfield, Ahlers and Cooney

This one hour session will discuss the RFP procurement process and best practices related to issuing RFPs for professional and other services.  This session will also outline the competitive bidding and competitive quotations processes required for public improvement projects under Iowa Code Chapter 26

Presenter: David Rendall

The Freak Factory: Making Employees Better By Helping Them Get Worse -  Most current management practices—trying to improve employees’ work habits, weaknesses, and attitudes—actually have a counter-productive effect. So how do you get more out of your employees? You start with their flaws —but don’t try to improve them. Instead, use them as clues for what they’d be best-suited for doing. David’s provocative and counter-intuitive talk will show you how to achieve peak performance—and create a positive, engaged workforce. 

Presenter: Patti Schroeder

Patti Schroeder will present guidelines for ensuring the proper internal controls are in place in your district.

Presenter: Craig Stranathan, Bray Architects

Attendees will be introduced the macro design goals of a safe and secure school facility. The presenters will discuss areas of conflict within a school building and briefly discuss strategies to improve environments that tend to have the most incidents. The presenters will also discuss diverging goals of a warm inviting learning environment and facility safety and security. The balance of the presentation will focus on the importance of and the key features of a Secure Entry Sequence.

Presenter: Kassandra Cline

Provide an overview of the School Budget Review Committee membership, authority, allowable reasons for a hearing to occur, and the process when appearing before the committee.

Presenter: Cheryl Risen, Heartland AEA

Have you ever presented to an audience and felt like they were not totally engaged? During this
interactive session, participants will learn and practice strategies for gaining and maintaining audience
attention throughout a presentation. Participants will explore the four audience types and techniques in
which to engage all adult learners. As a result of engaging in this session, participants can expect to be
able to implement a few key strategies that will enhance their future presentations.

Presenter: Rob Olsen, DE

Presenter: Harry Heiligenthal

Join us for this interactive session to engage in conversations with other participants and panel members from the session regarding strategies and practical tips to enhance the working partnership of the board and board secretary.  Harry Heiligenthal presented at the Fall Conference on this topic and is providing attendees with another opportunity to attend this dynamic session.

Presenter: Karli North, Host Corey Atkinson, Software Unlimited

Karli North will moderate a Crackerbarrel session regarding Software Unlimited software.  Corey Atkinson from SU will be available if questions come up.  The intent of the session is for users to come and share tips and tricks they use and to ask questions of other attendees.

Note:  This is a Crackerbarrel session and not eligible for credit.

Conference attendees are invited to participate in a 4K Fun Run/Walk to be held at the Ames Middle School.

This is a swell networking opportunity, a chance to meet your peers in a different setting.  After a full day of professional development, come participate as a walker, stroller or runner and enjoy the outdoors.

Presenter: Jerome Wade

THE ULTIMATE EDGE: The Guide to Driving for Success Without Losing What You Love.

Life for working professionals is filled with endless deadlines, unreasonable demands, and all-consuming dilemmas. For many, the pursuit of success and their drive to achieve, leads them to perform at an unsustainable pace putting at risk the very things they love. Left unchecked, drive and ambition can cause anyone to find themselves leading on empty, suffering from the devastating consequences of fatigue.

It doesn’t have to be that way, you can stay at the top of your game and get what you want without putting at risk everything that matters to you. In this unfiltered, solution rich presentation, you will learn how to:

·        Drive for success without driving yourself into the ground.

·        Recognize, reverse, and prevent executive fatigue and burnout.

·        Discover innovative resilience strategies.

·        Create a self–leadership matrix that creates focus, alignment, and drives long-term results

·        Activate clarity, confidence, and courageous leadership.

·        Reengineer a bigger, brighter, significance driven life.

Presenter: Paul Bobek and Melissa Fettkether

What type of financial information do you report to your board?  Interested in some examples and ideas?  Paul Bobek and Melissa Fettkether will be sharing some example and ideas.

Presenter: Liz Cox and Abby Patterson, Jester Ins.

Personnel from Jester Ins. will be partnering with the folks from PCAI (Prevent Child Abuse of Iowa) and educate school business leaders about child abuse in Iowa schools and ways to prevent it. Unfortunately, we are seeing an increase in claims both in frequency and severity across Iowa. Schools are looking for help and perhaps SBO’s can help start the discussion.

Presenter: Jerome Wade

Most organizations are limited by an “accidental culture” and everyone suffers for it, internally and externally.  Smart leaders create and fiercely protect the culture that defines them. To unleash the performance, productivity  and impact of your organization it’s time to create a culture as unique as your signature.

When you put Your Signature Culture^TM into action you will see your workforce fully engage, your customers be amazed, and your competition fear you. The #1 strategic advantage for your organization is the culture you intentionally create.  Create a compelling culture and you win, ignore your culture and you lose. This is the simple formula to help you create an inspiring and irresistible organization.

In this presentation you will learn how to:  

·         Intentionally and precisely define your signature culture

·         Leverage your signature culture to attract and retain clients

·         Unleash a culture that inspires and engages your workforce

·         Effectively build your culture into your people and organization

·         Avoid the forces pulling against your signature culture

Presenter: Kurt Subra, Moderator

Kurt Subra will moderate this Crackerbarrel session on operational sharing.  Bring your questions and share your experiences.

Reminder - this is a Crackerbarrel session and not eligible for credit.

Presenter: Ed Chabal and Tim Bloom

Looking for a way to enhance your financial reporting and improve your financial transparency?  Come to this session to find out how your financial report can be an award winning report through the ASBO International Certificate of Excellence Program.

Presenter: Karla Hogan Moderator

Karla Hogan will moderate this Crackerbarrel session on fiscal challenges facing all sized districts.  Join this session and share your experiences, ask your questions, learn from others.

Reminder - this is a Crackerbarrel session and not eligible for credit.

Presenter: Gary Sinclair, Forecast5

Districts will be able to use the most recent state-wide CAR data available for their district to start the process of sorting the coding requirements for ESSA.  The session will walk participants through a process to identify: school site or district facilities; local-state-federal spending; school site enrollments; function level assignments; and reviewing and analyzing report results.  This session will allow participants to use individual school data to help consider coding changes that may be required prior to submitting the FY19 CAR.